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The chestnut o£ the rump and tail feathers is also o£ a deeper 

 tone. 



Bill 11 mm., tail 59; wing 81 ; tarsus 26. 



Type in the British Museum, rj ad. Genderu, Cameroon 

 Highlands, 4600 £t., 28 August, 1921. G. L. Bates coll. 



Observation. This is evidently a dark mountain race 

 inhabiting the Genderu Mountains and the high plateau 

 situated between that range and the Bauso Mountains on the 

 Nigerian-Cameroon boundary. 



C. f. falkeasteini Cab., described from Tschintschoscho, 

 Loango Coast, is a much paler bird. 



Lord Rothschild sent the descriptions o£ some new 

 Yunnan birds, collected by Mr. G. Forrest, which were 

 exhibited by Dr. Hartert : — 



Dryocopus forresti, sp. nov. 



This fine new bird is nearly allied to Dryocopus ricliardsi 

 Tristr., from Tsuschima Island, and D . javensis feddeni Blanf., 

 from Burma. As the latter is recorded from Yunnan by 

 Outram Bangs (Malipa, Burma Border), I must treat the new 

 form as a species. 



c? ad. Differs from D. richardsi in the darker scarlet, less 

 orange scarlet of the crown and nape ; in the less amount of 

 white on the coziceaied portions of the inner secondaries, and 

 in the almost complete absence of the narrow white edges 

 to these secondaries. 



It also differs from D. ricliardsi in the less extent of the 

 black portion of the lower upper tail-coverts. On the under 

 surface it is apparently more strongly tinged with cream- 

 colour on the white areas. 



From 1). j. feddeni it differs in its much larger size, larger 

 white tips to the primaries, and blacker chin and throat. 



$ ad. Dift'ers from 1). richardsi in having a scarlet nape- 

 band, in the much less amount of white on the concealed 

 portion of the inner secondaries, in the complete absence of 

 the white edges to the secondaries, and in the more creamy 



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